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In my opinion, live content is often on target, just as often poorly thought out.
The citizenry votes with ballots . . . and dollars.
One is often as effective as the other in steering a nation toward ethical behavior.
Keep in mind: A representative democracy is a grand historical experiment. If you value it, value the things that keep it going.
You are arguing a point I didn’t make. I think it would be great if we build standards for consuming media and content like mind maps and charts - I just don’t want to be forced to open up to running any arbitrary code to be able to consume that content. We’ve been lead into a false dichotomy.
Yeah, it is super handy. I routinely do this for Changelog files from the libraries I use.
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Tape those suckers off when you store them somewhere or you may have a nasty fire on your hands. Both terminals so close together makes for an easy short if it finds the right bit of metal somewhere.
I see from their blog that they support live stream now. Very interesting solution, but it lacks a community (at least at first glance). I wonder what a good social pairing with it would be to help drive traffic between federations.
I'm not talking about people being offended. I'm talking about people being murdered for publicity, as a propaganda effort, and YouTube having to deal with the fallout.
That summary is a direct copy and paste from the Wikipedia link I posted and references in that quote.

And yeah, I have read Popper as well as Wikipedia. Saying "it's not accurate" isn't accurate.
I’ve been a senior dev for many years. People ask me a lot of questions all the time. I also ask a lot of questions all the time. Q&A is just a very effective mode of communication.
You can do that, but it requires all of the assignments to be done simultaneously at the beginning of the study, which will cause problems for e.g. medical trials where not everyone enrolls at once.

But why bother? There's no special statistical value in having two exactly equal buckets as opposed to one bucket with 1,621 people in it and another with 1,427.
I'm not sure why there is a database at all, if you want messages to just appear and not stick around you could do this over websockets and never need to touch a database
I think this part: "as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion" is clearly relevant when the very facts public opinion is based on are attacked.
The problem with 20 minute rule, is that there is just so, so much arcane knowledge embedded into systems we really should not make everyone spend 20 minutes or more each time.

So many little things especially - it's the job of the people holding the knowledge to spread it so they can be unencumbered by it.

I never want my jdevs flailing around wondering why this or that was done, re-inventing things we've already done, going down rabbit holes we've already been down.

Batch them and ask.

Other devs have to get with the fact it's part of the job there's just now way around it.

Figure out a way to socialize it ie open hours, or extensive training etc. - or even - better documentation.
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I don't have a backhoe, does an excavator count?

I once hit a gas line. With a jackhammer. 8” below the surface. That should never happen, but did.
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You're telling me that incumbent platforms are behaving in anticompetitive fashions? if only someone would do something
You know this how?

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-employers-discri...

Specifically:
“ Even if you work in a state that doesn’t protect employees from political discrimination, you might still have a legal claim if your employer’s actions were really based on a protected trait under Title VII or a similar state law. For example, if African American employees are fired for participating in a Black Lives Matter rally, but employees of other races are not fired for going to marches, rallies, or protests, that might qualify as illegal race discrimination. ”

You don’t have enough information to say either way, and the law and courts aren’t as cut-and-dry as you want to believe.
Did you miss the part where they use Gab and Parker?
The world is dangerously dependent on Taiwan for semiconductors
I'd like a drive to store data 100, 200+ years into the future and have it have a reasonable chance of getting that data

That's flat out impossible given current drives. So many mechanical parts. So much to go wrong, such as air seals, bearings, etc. Even if the drive survived, will you be able to connect to its interface? No!

If you want to store data for 100 years, you will need to copy that data over, approximately every 5 years, onto the then current storage medium.
Depends on the level of abstraction you and your kid are willing to get into.

Arduino's are lower-level C/C++ which may be a little more complex than CP, but have much broader library support (better intro to EE/embedded).

RPis are much higher level which could be programmed in any language (better intro to CS/Linux).
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Yeah java 6/7 was verbose, but it's nothing representative of the language now. You might as well point out the problems of C++03. Streams, lambdas, method references, records, and local variable inference make it pretty fluent to write and at the very least it has a sane standard library (I can't say as much for Scala).

Also as for their intro problem what type of Java programmer worth their salt can't do:

while (true)
System.out.print(System.in.read());
that's because victim/oppressor is a false dichotomy. the true dichotomy is friend/enemy
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Would this bypass most Google Font tracking? An extension that makes Google Font requests on behalf of the requesting site and caches the response indefinitely and for all sites, somewhat like LocalCDN/Decentraleyes, but on demand.
I think social media is not directly comparable to television and radio broadcasts. The public square analogy makes much more sense here. But even then, in a lot of places there are impartiality requirements on media outlets, as flawed as they may be.

Let me use your analogy, though.

Let's say there are many newspapers in town. Is it fair for me to refuse to publish certain things? Sure.

What if I own the only newspaper in town? It gets more complicated. But hey, perhaps the town has a thriving samizdat culture, so maybe it's fine.

But then what if I start buying out every printing press in town? And on top of that, what if I'm pressured by the mayor to not publish something? This is a big issue now, right?

How can that situation be addressed? People often suggest regulating that sole paper, but to me the answer is taking steps to ensure that we never end up with one newspaper in town. And we definitely don't let that paper control all of the printing presses.
Circuit Playground is the hardware product that goes hand in hand with CircuitPython, but you’ll probably want to program it using makecode instead.

Version 2 called “Circuit Playground Express” is currently very popular. V1 is obsolete, and there’s a version 3 with Bluetooth. All of them are pre-built with sensors, RGB LEDs, and buttons. This removes a huge hurdle: no soldering required. (Soldering is a fun skill but so is baking bread and cross country hiking — most kids are usually 100% focused on making blinking lights and don’t want to do anything tangential.)

Right now, only version 2 is supported by http://makecode.adafruit.com. makecode is different to CircuitPython: you write your code in JavaScript either using a visual block language or directly in the online JS IDE — both of which are very high quality dev environments with excellent discoverability — and compile everything into a new .UF2 firmware for the device to load each time. The site provides an emulator which is another killer feature. You can go there right now and start programming a board.

CircuitPython on the other hand is itself a pre baked UF2 firmware with a Python interpreter built in. Because your dev tools (runtime, debugger) are now on the device you have less memory to play with and it’s less stable, in my experience. It’s also not immediately obvious how to get things done, compared with the makecode IDE.

With my teenage pupils it was only the makecode JS / block programming that lit up their eyes. The Python tools were too weird. Devices like this are about playfulness and doing weird stuff, and only tangentially about programming, I’ve found.

The killer feature of Circuit Playground was the v2/“Express” (CPE) board with its infrared transmit and receive functionality. Connectivity turns these things from toys into real hacking platforms. I spent the holidays making IR “WiFi” for a pool of 8 CPEs.

The v3 Bluetooth-enabled board sounds great but it won’t be as popular with my classes if it doesn’t support makecode (which it currently does not.)
> Does this make sure every equal partition have the same probability of showing up?

I'm not sure, but I wouldn't bet against it. But what is the value of having an exactly equal partition?

On second thought, the algorithm you describe processes people in a particular order, and it is much more likely to put two people who both occur near the end of the list into the same bucket than to put them in different buckets. So if that processing order is constant, the algorithm cannot produce every equal partition with equal probability.
You do know the Weimar Republic had hate speech laws and enforced them against the nazis:

Contrary to what most people think, Weimar Germany did have hate-speech laws, and they were applied quite frequently. The assertion that Nazi propaganda played a significant role in mobilising anti-Jewish sentiment is, of course, irrefutable. But to claim that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only anti-Semitic speech and Nazi propaganda had been banned has little basis in reality. Leading Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech.[1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...
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Apple IIc Plus - with Basic - was my first programming experience. Programming a computer blew me away and it's lost a little mystery since then, but is still quite interesting. No tech I've used since has really recaptured the feeling.
I'm good at reading/writing regex and use them a lot, but I always worry about their maintainability. They're a common source of hard-to-pinpoint bugs.

I suppose I still use them because I don't know of a better way to do things.
Check out Andrew Huberman's podcast, I cannot recommend him enough.

Turns out it's not really the color that is the most important factor for wakefulness-shifting, but the amount of light your eyes perceive. Yes, the cells responsible are more sensitive to bluish light, but a ton of not-so-bluish light would keep you awake just the same, and just a little blue light wouldn't be that harmful.

That being said, 'blue for Go' still makes more sense to me instinctively :D
Frama-C is a specific compiler. It has not much to do with proving your own code. (And C ain't a good language for writing code you want to prove correct in.)

You are right that after having proven your code correct, you might want to use an implementation (compiler or interpreter), that is also proven correct. But those are still two different things.
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Ghostboard is awesome, I am using it with my Ghost blog.

I shared some of my posts on Hacker News and got lots of views from here, than any other social networks.

Seems Hacker News's approach is working!!
They're quick to tell on themselves. When Biden condemned white supremacy, a lot of conservative leaders were outraged at the attack against them: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/why-are-conservative....
Right, and I get that. My point is, "Why is that YouTube's problem?"

What does it say about our society, where people will commit murder for publicity, thus totally and utterly destroying their lives, almost certainly for life, just for some validation of their existence?

I just cannot get shake the feeling its our culture that has a serious problem, not our tech platforms.
Its no wonder there is a trend now of just outright rejecting information presented when our "trusted" sources of information are very susceptible to malice and error without any real tools to combat it.

My current view is that academic research should not be used as proof of anything and only as the starting point for your own research. And by your own research I mean your own actual tests. The papers can point you in the right direction but their findings should not be taken as fact.
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>Yet, modern science still can't measure the harmoniousness of a song at a given point or overall -- we have neither the theory nor the math to do so. It is an active area of scientific research! I find that so cool.

What about consonance and dissonance? We have both the math and the music theory for those. Wouldn't that be a measure of harmoniousness?
Competition makes it harder for malicious actors to manipulate everyone's content, but lets not pretend that companies don't know how to create the illusion of competition [1,2]

In real life, you get to choose the people to be friend with or associate with, and we all have number of circles with interests that doesn't necessary overlap the same circles. That's pretty much the same thing that I have on the internet when using certain social media. It's great since you don't have spammers, and you don't have to deal with racists or people who just turn up the temperature of a room. Maybe that's the way it should be.

It's also much more difficult to spread vitriolic meme since it has to infiltrate the various disparate communities.

Moderated communities are basically the HOA neighborhoods of the internet. There is nothing wrong with liking the high property values, but competition alone does not prevent their abuses [3].

OK. Pretty much any places that aren't garbage have moderation of some sort. If nothing else to keep out spam.

And a community isn't a HOA, which you are basically stuck with if you live in them.
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Google earth actually is my jaw dropping experience. I can go into places and explore in seconds.
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Wow he changed two million lines of the sudo codebase over the project history and made 10,548 commits. That's bonkers. Sudo is clearly doing a lot more under the hood than I thought it did. A simple security critical command shouldn't have that much churn. It should arc towards immutability like TeX, which has had like twelve changes in the last 40 years.
That’s great news. Hopefully PEP 505 gets revised as well, which would make optional not only more ergonomic to declare but also more ergonomic to use.
Reminds me of "a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on".

That precise quote is from Pratchett but there are similar, earlier citations https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
That's the site's "algorithm" (ie, the audience) at work and not anything the mods are doing.
Another for your list: Jordanian-American woman gets her publishing deal canceled for tweeting about a rude DC Metro employee, because the Metro employee was black.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/05/11/dc-...
> I am in favor of capitalists controlling their own business - modulo protected class issues

What does this mean?

Can you give an example of a protected class and how the business would be impacted?
I'm pretty confident that, no matter what idea you want to express, you can find a forum on the Internet which allows you to express it. Even the most offensive, socially toxic ideas typically have a handful of forums that welcome them. Am I misunderstanding your argument here?
An employer got annoyed with me once because I didn't know how to generate a new SSH key pair. Oh well. Now I know.
As far as I know, librespot is reverse-engineered from libspotify and/or the official Spotify client. As mentioned on their GitHub page:

> Using this code to connect to Spotify's API is probably forbidden by them. Use at your own risk.
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The fear for me is less about seeming less intelligent or having low self-worth and more about seeming like I haven't looked hard enough. A lot of the time, I can find the answer after 3 hours at work just by trying a bunch of things but it's hard to know when it's better to stop looking and start asking questions to unblock me faster.
This is a very strange claim. Just off the top of my head, this definition of "mainstream mathematics" would exclude, for instance, Gödel's more famous theorems, a good bit of Grothendieck, some of the Bourbaki collective, and a huge amount of work from rather high profile mathematicians working today.
Ok, but you selectively quoted a part that makes it sound like Popper is fine not tolerating any intolerance. He wasn’t. He basically said you tolerate intolerance as much as you can without risking the collapse of social order.

Big difference.
I'm no billionaire but I'm certainly a fan of The Culture Series. It's an extremely beautiful series of books.
The exciting thing is exactly that it lacks all those capabilities. Thus the attack surface is smaller.

> You could achieve the same goals with a statically linked program in any languages...

Typically statically linked programs still run under an operating system like Linux. (And Linux might run on top of a hypervisor.) Linux is a complicated beast, with lots of (undiscovered) vulnerabilities and bugs.

MirageOS cuts out Linux.

Basically, MirageOS treats the hypervisor as if it was an operating system. It's just an accident of history, that we call processes running on a hypervisor 'virtual machines', but fundamentally a hypervisor is just a special kind of OS.
Reminds me of Secret. I miss Secret. Why did it have to die? Once the apps were built, I can't imagine it was that expensive to keep the servers up.
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It's perfectly fine to wish for something without having all the answers - I don't think I should be attacked for that.

People should be allowed to say that they wish to improve something, even if they don't have the exact scientifically proven step by step way to actually implement it. We are allowed to say that wars should end, that people shouldn't die of hunger, and so on - even if we don't have the exact step by step plan on how to implement it that we can share on HN.

And sacrificing my privacy doesn't have to mean that it's open to public, it refers to actually being able to enforce certain rules. If I were to do something that's illegal on HN the authorities would have no problem finding me.
sudo can be restricted to specific commands, so you can restrict non-root users to do VERY specific actions (ie, the webdev can reload apache2 but not restart or stop it or take any other action).

This means the webdev has the least amount of access necessary for their work without giving them straight up root or using setuid on a script, which can lead to easy bugs (did you check PATH?)
> The public square analogy makes much more sense here. But even then, in a lot of places there are impartiality requirements on media outlets, as flawed as they may be.

The "Public Square" assumes the space is owned by... well the public. Either the town or city. That's not the case here. Even if it were, the reach of a person in the public square is tiny... a few hundred people if they are absolutely lucky.

Besides... your rights in actual public squares haven't changed a bit. Save the fact that COVID has shut down many public spaces.

> But then what if I start buying out every printing press in town?

You mean the way Clear Channel has actually bought up a huge percentage of radio stations?

The way big right wing corporations have bought up the majority of local television stations in the country?

Is it "fair" that the majority of television broadcast stations are owned by a few right-wing media companies?

For what it's worth, all three "competing" local broadcast television stations are owned by the same company now.

I'd love to know why people think it's super important that Facebook and Twitter cease their supposedly "biased" curating while so many broadcast companies which reach 10s of millions of homes get a free pass.
What about cloud storage like Dropbox ?
I paid $4,200 for it in San Diego, California. Maybe it can be cheaper elsewhere.

Side effects = NOTHING. Seriously. The operation is legitimately nothing, super duper quick. You walk into a room and in less than fifteen minutes you walk out with perfect vision. It's unbelievable.

Satisfied? Very much. I now have perfect vision. I still forget sometimes. Like I'll take off my shirt at the end of the night and will be pulling it away as if I had glasses on.

Or I'll even go to take off my glasses when I get in bed and realize I don't have glasses.

I will say...everyone throughout life treated me like a "very smart person"(tm) but now that is less so and I'm starting to think the glasses had something to do with it :D
The "Bluetooth device can't do high quality" sounds like pulseaudio today to be honest. One of the reasons I'm waiting for pipewire to become more common.

Also, after reading this article I suddenly understand why my MBP sometimes goes into low-quality, mono mode during conference calls.
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> ... answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

The real paradox of the paradox of tolerance is how many people use Popper quotes to rationalize their own intolerance for people with differing ideas, without any awareness that Popper was speaking only of intolerance for people who resort to violence.
- There is a video (unless it was taken down, expectedly) that clearly showed that one can modify votes in realtime - it showed checkboxes being flipped from votes for Trump to votes for Biden & back again.

- The machines could be connected to the internet according to Dominion's own documentation, contrary to what Dominion CEO said in Michigan.

- Dominion machines were used even in Venezuela to aid a corrupt regime, which in & of itself does not prove anything, but in view of above aspects need to be looked into.

- Signatures & id's were not checked for mail in ballots & even for in person votes in at least some of the swing states. Why? It's quite remarkable that for Covid vaccines now, id's are mandatory.

- The Ratner NIA report is explicit & absolutely clear that China & Iran were able to access the Dominion systems. Please read it.

- 96% of Dominion political donations went to democrats. https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/dominion-dem-donors/ Isn't this even a teeny bit suspicious??

Politics aside, it looks like HN is not even able (ready) to examine what the truth is. Especially when ~30% os US population think that the election was fraudulent. If elections are themselves questionable, then do we have any hope of having a nation anymore? What if the shoe was on the other foot?? Trust but verify is all I ask. If information is censored then how will ANYONE verify anything???
When I try to learn a new skill with the help of the professional, e.g. hire a ski coach, I usually get compliments like "you're learning it faster than most people". I often think that they probably tell that to every single customer but damn it feels great. Playing on insecurities is powerful.
Back in 2018, Amazon acquired the television rights to develop a television series based on Banks' "Consider Phlebas", but the project was cancelled last year. :(

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21402585/amazon-cancels-t...
I am so sad that he is dead. The Culture may be the most interesting series I have ever read.